Winter storm update in Bayonne
The city’s combined snow removal efforts continued into Tuesday, Dec. 28. Snow plows and salters continue to address snow on side streets and main thoroughfares.
Snow was expected to be removed from Avenue C, Broadway, Avenue E and Avenue F on Tuesday; and Avenue A and Prospect Avenue on Wednesday.
The city has asked residents to cooperate with the removal efforts by moving their cars if possible. Cars that are not moved will be temporarily relocated.
Public school parking lots are available for parking until Jan. 3, 2011.
The city said snow plowing has been hampered by vehicles that are abandoned, double parked, and/or protruding into the roadway. These vehicles will be impounded and relocated to allow for snow plowing.
Do not double park cars on city streets, officials cautioned.
Lowe’s opens its door
Just in time for the blizzard of 2010, Lowe’s Home Improvement store officially opened it doors on Monday, Dec. 27. The grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremonies are scheduled for 10 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 30. In conjunction with the grand opening, Lowe’s is holding a Gift Card Match Day, where you can buy a gift card and help to build a home. Purchase a Lowe’s gift card on Thursday, Dec. 30, and Lowe’s will match purchases up to $5,000 to support the Newark Habitat for Humanity’s next building project.
The new store is located in the Bayonne Crossing Mall on Route 440 between East 22nd Street and New Hook Road.
At 10 a.m., the store will feature the Tic Tac Toe Board for the Build and Grow project. Lowe’s conducts Build and Grow clinics bi-weekly as a way for parents and adult mentors to spend quality time with their children—free of charge. The clinics are recommended for children in grades two to five, and each clinic provides hands-on instruction to approximately 50 children. To sign-up for the bi-weekly Build and Grow workshops at a local store, visit lowesbuildandgrow.com.
The Bayonne Lowe’s store has 94,000 square feet of retail sales space, with an adjacent garden center, stocking 32,000 different items to help customers build, improve, and beautify their homes. A store of this size represents an average investment in the community of approximately $12 million and creates up to 120 new jobs.
City heating ordinance to be amended
The City Council is slated to amend its ordinance in January to establish higher minimum temperature than is recommended by the state, setting requirements for apartments and businesses to provide 70 degree temperatures during the day, and 66 degrees overnight.
Lautenberg and Rothman celebrate passing health act for 9/11 responders
U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg and Rep. Steve Rothman applauded the passage of the “James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act” after months of debate.
Lautenberg is a co-sponsor of the bill, which seeks to provide health care for first responders and workers sickened by toxic exposure resulting from the World Trade Center attacks.
“The Ground Zero workers and their families should be proud of the work they did to help us achieve this emotional and hard fought victory,” Lautenberg said. “Thousands of New Jersey’s first responders and workers who answered the call to service in the wake of Sept. 11 will now be guaranteed the benefits they deserve. It is shameful that we had to fight back Republican opposition to achieve this victory, but we are finally on track to fulfill the moral mandate we have to our war wounded.”
Nearly 14,000 workers and 2,400 community residents are sick from being exposed to toxic dust at Ground Zero. An additional 70,000 people, including 8,000 New Jerseyans, are being monitored for health effects.
Rothman (D- 9th Dist.), a member of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, co-sponsored the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act in the House of Representatives. The legislation is named after New York Police Officer James Zadroga, a hero and resident of North Arlington, N.J., who acquired a fatal respiratory disease during his heroic Ground Zero recovery effort and died on Jan. 5, 2006. An autopsy of Zadroga revealed that toxic chemicals and fibers from the burning World Trade Center ruins were found in his lungs.
“The passage of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act is long overdue,” Rothman said. “The late Officer Zadroga, and the families of many other heroes like him, will now get the support they deserve. The first responders and survivors exposed to the toxins of Ground Zero will also get the health care and compensation they deserve.”
The legislation would create a fund to pay for the monitoring and treatment of health conditions that resulted from the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks. In addition, the bill would reopen the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund to applications from individuals who did not apply because they were not sick at the time of the filing deadline in December 2003.
Clarification
In an article published in the Dec. 22 issue of the Bayonne Community News, titled “Harris names Students of the Month,” Ronald Celones, a fourth grade student at Henry Harris School, was named Student of the Month for his class. His family wishes to congratulate him.